Outlining relations between ethnoecology and heritage education for science teaching

Abstract

Located in the municipality of Carnaubeira da Penha, in a semi-arid region of Pernambuco state, the “quilombo-indígena” of Tiririca dos Crioulos articulates its memories around the narratives that conform its identity. In this place, between 2014 to 2018, the action of Heritage Education “Do Buraco ao Mundo” (“From the Hole to the World”), a process of “self-research”, the references that form and the way the same tiririqueiros and tiririqueiras, acting as local researchers, introduce themselves to the world. The considerations presented here demonstrate the possibility of different forms for the contextualization of teaching-learning processes, indicating the potentiality of Heritage Education strategies, associated to an ethnoecological approach in the mediation of knowledge, to combat discriminatory practices and delegitimizing knowledge in search of an education in which it takes the territory as a condition of possibility of relationships and (re) discoveries.